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Nice early-fall blow in Western Washington today! 💨
Seattle gusted to 38 mph—nothing too crazy, but pretty decent for September.
Olympia (south of the track of the storm center) hit 54 mph!
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Love you, Nebraska, but … cry me a river! 🤣
15 days in a row and counting! 🙀🌧️
Omaha’s current wet streak is now tied for the 3rd longest on record and the longest stretch since 1960.
Are you ready for a dry spell, or is the streak staying alive? Track the weekend rain chances: weather.gov/omaha #NEwx #IAwx
ALT Infographic by the National Weather Service Omaha titled "OMAHA: 15 DAYS OF PRECIP (AND COUNTING!)" tracking precipitation from Friday, Sept 11 to Friday, Sept 25, recorded at Omaha Eppley including trace amounts. The graphic features an illustration of a soaking wet, wide-eyed black cat next to a list of "Longest Stretches" of precipitation in Omaha history: 25 Days - September 1884 16 Days - March 1905 15 Days - March 1960 15 Days and Counting - Sept 2026 The bottom of the graphic displays the URL: weather.gov/omaha.
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Seattle Weather Blog retweeted
Rare morning bow (looking east across the pond) over Seattle
#calmbeforethestorm
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Start your engines, Seattle: Our first storm of the season is on the way!
Plan on plenty of rain & breezy winds throughout the day tomorrow. And some 🍁leaves down—fall is here!
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Seattle’s most exciting season has arrived—the time when any type of weather (except heatwaves 😊) is possible.
Hello fall! 💨 🌧️☀️🌫️❄️
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Mother Nature is chasin’ the clouds away this 21st night of September. 🎶
They’ll fill in in earnest early tomorrow, though, with scattered showers possible by sunrise.
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High temp was 74° today—slightly warmer than the average of 72.
Seattle has only seen 2 days this month with above-normal high temps: today and Sept. 9 (78°)
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Halfway through September, and we’ve yet to hit 80 degrees.
If we can avoid it the rest of the month, it’ll be our first September without seeing the 80s since 2016.
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Seattle Weather Blog retweeted
I've always said it: Hurricanes strike in clusters. A location can go decades without any direct hits, and then get multiple ones in a short time. I've seen this phenomenon again and again.
And that's what we have this year in #Hawaii.
Category 2 #LOWELL is the second direct hit on Hawai'i this year—and yet only the 5th known direct hit on the eight main islands of the state since 1900. Wow!
Like LALA in August, LOWELL did not make landfall—the center stayed over water. But it was a direct hit because the radius of maximum winds (RMW) did pass over land—in this case, Ni'ihau. (On radar, the hurricane's eyewall is an approximate—though not exact—proxy for the RMW.)
You can see in this wind swath from the NHC that sustained hurricane winds raked Ni'ihau but mostly missed #Kauai, perhaps brushing the extreme W tip of that island. But gusts to #hurricane force were reported from multiple locations on Kaua'i, including Lihue Airport on the far (SE) side of the island.
Ni'ihau—a privately owned island with under 100 inhabitants—has no doubt seen significant damage.
Impacts on Kaua'i (pop. ~73K) are extensive—the worst on this island since INIKI in 1992. The storm surge and wave action was especially destructive, inundating homes and businesses and washing out roads. And there's widespread wind damage, as well as significant power outages.
Because LOWELL had a large windfield, even #Oahu, a good 170 mi (~275 km) E of the center, saw tropical storm winds and experienced damage.
Let's hope LOWELL is the end of this cluster of Hawaiian hurricanes!
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Seattle Weather Blog retweeted
Storm in north King County just before it drenched the area and produced dozens of lightning strikes. #wawx
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Skies are darkening, the wind is picking up, and rain is falling.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
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Daniel is a must-follow for all my CA weather friends. Extremely knowledgeable with no hype!
Update: The tropical weather feature of great interest--Tropical Storm (& soon hurricane) #Marie--has now developed. Marie's track will dictate potential CA impacts over Labor Day; uncertainty remains high, w/significant impacts possible (but direct landfall unlikely). [Thread]
ALT Snapshot from polarwx.com showing Marie's projected path as depicted by ECMWF and GFS ensembles. Note the bifurcated trajectory--one westward, one northward.
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🔹COOLEST JULY/AUGUST COMBO IN 14 YEARS 🔹
The average temperature from July 1-Aug. 31 was 67.3°—Seattle’s coolest since 2012.
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Believe it or not, that’s still above the long-term (30-year) average of 67.1°. In other words, this summer still skewed slightly warm—but it didn’t feel like it, give how hot recent summers have been!
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